Maxioms by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It read more
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take read more
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
